[News] Israel Apologists Think "No No, We're Starving SICK Kids!" Is A Winning Argument

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I will probably spend the foreseeable future periodically reminding the 
world that when everyone was angry at Israel for starving children in 
Gaza, Israel’s apologists spent days loudly proclaiming that no, they 
were actually just starving /*sick*/children.

As their /*defense*/they said this. They actually believed this helped 
their case.

Let me back up a bit.

On Wednesday, The New York Times posted an editor’s note 
<https://substack.com/redirect/c9bc06a7-110a-4c04-95c1-0b84a0e04223?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>on 
an article it had published 
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previous Friday which included a horrifying photo of an emaciated child 
named Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq. Caving to pressure from Zionists and 
influence ops like the Israeli propaganda 
<https://substack.com/redirect/04e224dc-aa7e-4ea9-89d2-0a117444db53?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>outlet 
HonestReporting 
<https://substack.com/redirect/ea0534e6-982f-43e0-a602-1b2ad4da2409?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>, 
the Times went out of its way to clarify that al-Mutawaq “had 
pre-existing health problems,” which Israel apologists instantly and 
predictably spun as proof that the media are lying about Israel starving 
Gaza.


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https://x.com/naftalibennett/status/1950334944670339427 
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Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennet claimed 
<https://substack.com/redirect/e1ead7a3-196e-413f-8227-8f5b60701977?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>that 
The New York Times was guilty of “a blood libel in 2025.”

Israeli media outlets like The Times of Israel 
<https://substack.com/redirect/2f035310-a3b9-4f81-bb9b-1bdb531dfe3c?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>, 
The Jerusalem Post 
<https://substack.com/redirect/93d7991d-370d-4d85-bf97-aea4ac863060?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>, 
i24 News 
<https://substack.com/redirect/7479c8f1-f456-44e1-8e44-4c200b24507d?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>, 
YNET 
<https://substack.com/redirect/c109de1d-e93b-4c0b-bdf6-81d8a37f6516?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>and 
Israel Hayom 
<https://substack.com/redirect/b5a12fa1-7ad8-4eb1-b9de-738d73fea69d?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>went 
ballistic, as did Jewish News Syndicate 
<https://substack.com/redirect/a93bf5bf-1897-4d5d-9b8e-8506d5e8a381?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>.

“New York Times stunningly rolls back claims about viral photo of 
starving Gaza boy 
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reads a New York Post headline.

“New York Times admits using misleading cover photo of emaciated Gaza 
child 
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blared Fox News.

“NYT Adds Sick Editors’ Note to Viral Photo of Child Starving in Gaza 
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proclaimed The New Republic.

Conservative pundit Glenn Beck threw a furious shit fit 
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AIPAC hilariously accused 
<https://substack.com/redirect/34749aa1-153c-47de-86d1-3e1d32ebe99a?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>the 
notoriously 
<https://substack.com/redirect/8213f58f-82ae-47d2-b798-e3d170289315?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>pro-Israel 
<https://substack.com/redirect/ab8d1a15-d2d8-401d-8a84-0855b637ba87?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>New 
York Times of being “instinctively against Israel”.

Israel apologists like David Frum 
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Gad Saad 
<https://substack.com/redirect/083ba424-1458-4d2d-a39a-10414b0029b0?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>, 
Brianna Wu 
<https://substack.com/redirect/80cd3e59-fabe-4c8f-b573-bd1e04505bb9?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>, 
Eyal Yakoby 
<https://substack.com/redirect/f8fb96d3-dca7-4412-81fa-0f6afaa50cf2?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>, 
Eylon Levy 
<https://substack.com/redirect/d073ba66-2643-431c-8724-238368a4b338?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>, 
Batya Ungar-Sargon 
<https://substack.com/redirect/a1249153-696a-4393-a626-64c6345cc0b1?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>, 
Eli David 
<https://substack.com/redirect/286b90f9-1ee8-4700-8fb2-09b2be586012?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>, 
Stephen L Miller 
<https://substack.com/redirect/ad5f9536-b2c0-469c-a471-3b41f2b26eb8?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>, 
David Collier 
<https://substack.com/redirect/a1d21123-9756-47ae-bdea-d6dcc0de8899?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>, 
Noah Pollak 
<https://substack.com/redirect/eb7e721a-1e1e-4110-aa4e-5f0e868d16f8?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>, 
and John Podhoretz 
<https://substack.com/redirect/6381855c-bf3c-4ede-bbf8-159ae5ce731a?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>went 
nuts on Twitter.

“They quietly added an editor’s note, but the lie already went global,” 
tweeted 
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Israel Foreign Ministry account.

Zionist billionaire Bill Ackman said 
<https://substack.com/redirect/e5637241-6aeb-4b46-9d63-f6ed9bd38ede?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>that 
Israel should sue The New York Times and other outlets for libel.

CNN’s Scott Jennings tweeted 
<https://substack.com/redirect/2a23e870-8ff6-4b30-8334-56e7281b6301?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>that 
the photo was evidence that a “propaganda mission” had been fulfilled.

And it was all complete bullshit. All of it.


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https://x.com/jasonhickel/status/1950575354822689107 
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Any expert in the field will tell you 
<https://substack.com/redirect/1ef5c5f7-c328-4457-a0ca-6dcbfb9fcd96?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>that 
the first people likely to die in any famine will be young children, the 
elderly, and people with chronic health problems. Mohammed Zakaria 
al-Mutawaq is two of the three. Israel apologists are citing obvious 
evidence that Gaza is being starved and claiming it’s evidence that Gaza 
is /*not*/being starved, and bizarrely acting as though sick children 
being starved to death makes Israel look better instead of worse.

An independent fact-checking platform called Misbar reports the 
following 
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    “Misbar interviewed Hedaya al-Mutawaq, the mother of 19-month-old
    Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, and found Israeli claims about her
    son’s condition to be misleading.

    “‘My son Mohammed was born in December 2023, during the war, without
    any chronic illnesses,’ Hedaya told Misbar. ‘Doctors diagnosed him
    with macrocephaly, which they said was caused by nutritional
    deficiencies during pregnancy due to the Israeli war.’

    “She emphasized that Mohammed was healthy and of normal weight at
    birth. ‘Over the past four months of displacement, his condition
    worsened due to the severe shortage of food. That is when he
    developed acute malnutrition.’

Misbar included a photo of Mohammed which his mother provided, showing a 
healthy-looking infant prior to Israel’s increased starvation campaign.


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Picture from Misbar.


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Image from The New York Times.

So Israel is killing disabled kids using siege warfare to deprive them 
of food and medical care, and its defenders are claiming this makes 
Israel look like the heroes in this story rather than the villains. It 
takes a special kind of psychopathy to think this is a winning argument.

This isn’t even the only time they’ve done this.

The other day Israel’s official Twitter account tried to claim 
<https://substack.com/redirect/ade99966-eff2-482f-b69d-e48c8283470d?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>that 
a photo of a dead skeletal man proves people are sharing disinformation 
about Israel, because it turns out the man had untreated diabetes. Back 
in December 2023, Human Rights Watch published an article titled “Gaza 
Blockade Puts People with Diabetes at Risk 
<https://substack.com/redirect/154b61b9-ac03-4107-891e-ee46c534dfa8?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>.”

Israel’s COGAT account tweeted 
<https://substack.com/redirect/3532d39e-9459-4266-bbf4-db4ec65b5fa4?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>that 
“Hamas is using photos of sick children to push the ‘starvation’ 
narrative and blame Israel” by pointing out that a starving 14 year-old 
child in a photograph actually has “a genetic disease.”

They’re actually trying to argue that people with chronic illness 
suffering under a siege more than healthy people is evidence of their 
innocence, rather than the normal thing you’d expect to be seeing at 
this point if Israel was intentionally starving a civilian population.

This is a new level of disgusting, in two years of record-shattering 
levels of disgusting.

I don’t expect that I will ever let Israel’s supporters live this one 
down, and neither should you.

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